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@yatesa01 @juwaretu I checked the Repair member’s last activity data, and the function seems unusable. The function starts by clearing all existing last_activity records for members from the bp_activity table. It then attempts to insert new last_activity records into the same table, pulling data from the usermeta table. BuddyPress no longer saves the data into the usermeta last activity_data unless $use_legacy_query mode is enabled.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9096 I have also submitted a ticket to get more insight into it.

Werny

I use BP 10.6.1 and the plugin linked below works fine on my site.
But it is now 8 years old, and is likely incompatible with newer versions of BP.
You should text it thoroughly before trying it on your live site.

BP Restrict Signup by Email Domain

BuddyPress doesn’t have this functionality built-in, there are potential approaches you can explore:
While your attempts at a custom plugin haven’t been successful, it’s still a viable option.
Post your error logs and relevant code snippets on the BuddyPress forum thread you linked. Experienced developers can analyze and identify the issue or Hire a WordPress developer experienced with BuddyPress customizations. They can create a more robust and error-free plugin.

Several plugins might achieve a similar result, though not always with exact feature parity:
Creates exclusive groups where only admins and moderators can post, but members can still access content and chat.

@jgflores check once with your hosting; they can tell you more about possible 403 errors
regarding which theme you are using; try to test once with default https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentyone/

@agorafolk you can use the date_i18n() function provided by WordPress, which formats the date according to your WordPress installation’s language setting.

// Assume $member_birthday contains the birthday date from the member's profile in the format '1984-06-27 00:00:00'
$member_birthday = '1984-06-27 00:00:00'; // Replace this with the actual code to get the member's birthday

// Convert the birthday string into a Unix timestamp
$timestamp = strtotime($member_birthday);

// Format the date in French (e.g., "27 juin 1984")
$formatted_birthday = date_i18n('j F Y', $timestamp);

echo $formatted_birthday;

https://wordpress.com/plugins/bp-fan-page

This is an old plugin of mine, which I think still works, and is simple enough to tweak in order to create a group type called Channel, and there are some customisation options built in.

Technically, you could fork it and pretty much just so a search and relace on the word fan to the word channel and that would work.

But I’d be happy to work with you to add an extra option for a channel page. I’d want you to do most of the work though. I’ve only just got back into coding after a lot of time away. BuddyPress plugins are not a high priority for me, but yes I’d be happy to help you teach yourself programming by manging my plugin.

You can use the WordPress gettext filter.

This filter allows you to intercept and modify text before it’s displayed on the page. Here’s an example of how you can use it to change a specific string in BuddyPress:

/**
 * Translates specific strings in BuddyPress to new values.
 * This function hooks into the 'gettext' filter provided by WordPress, allowing for the modification
 * of text before it is displayed or used on the site. It specifically targets text within the 'buddypress' domain,
 * making it suitable for customizing or translating BuddyPress strings without altering language files.
 *
 * @param string $translated_text The text after being translated.
 * @param string $text The text before being translated.
 * @param string $domain The domain of the text being translated. This function specifically targets 'buddypress'.
 * @return string The modified or translated text.
 */
add_filter( 'gettext', 'wbcom_translate_buddypress_strings', 20, 3 );

function wbcom_translate_buddypress_strings( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
    // Target only BuddyPress strings to avoid affecting other texts.
    if ( 'buddypress' === $domain ) {
        switch ( $translated_text ) {
            // Example: Translate "Friends" to "Connections".
            case 'Friends':
                $translated_text = 'Connections';
                break;

            // Add more strings to translate as needed, following the pattern above.
        }
    }

    return $translated_text;
}

Inside the switch statement, you can add cases for each specific string you wish to translate or modify. Replace ‘Friends’ with the BuddyPress string you want to change, and ‘Connections’ with the desired new text.

I’d like to throw into the mix ActivityPub. With WordPress being able to support ActivityPub through the ActivityPlug Plugin from Automattic it would be interesting to understand how BuddyPress could interact with other servers and communities built on Mastodon and other ActivityPub compliant servers.

It would be interesting to see a home feed and have the ability to follow others on different servers.

Thanks for the response! I installed classic but no change.
No change when I de-activate the ‘Buddy Press for Learndash’ by BuddyBoss plugin. (https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-learndash/)
I checked with LearnDash and this is still the plugin they advise to use – even though it hasn’t been updated in 4 years. We may just abandon the functionality – it doesn’t offer much value to us if it’s not connected to the online course. I suspect the BuddyBoss plugin is the issue.

@rodrigolzd, try this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-activity-filter. You can disable a certain type of activity posting. This feature will only be effective on new activities, and will not remove existing ones. For example, when someone adds you as a friend or registers on the community.

@jerrythemouse https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailpoet-paid-memberships-pro-add-on works fine with Mailpoet 3.

There is no specific limitation from Paid Membership Pro I have seen upto so far where it limits you to fetch registered user email and sync it to any 3rd party integration.

@jerrythemouse To add a membership layer, you can use Paid Membership Pro, which also comes with a BuddyPress addon.

Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions

BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Private Community with PMPro – Restrict Profiles, Groups, Messaging, Forum Discussions

I am glad to hear that a v.14 is planned!
For 10 years I’ve tried to build something with buddypress, but I have never been able to launch a completed project, as I haven’t had the skills to make it as functional as it needed to be.

I am one of those guys that have used wordpress + various other members plugin + freelancer to make what I want.

Every community is different – so is the ones I’ve tried to make, and more often than not I haven’t needed 60% of the functionality coming out of the box in buddypress. But there are always something missing, at least for what I wanted to use Buddypress for.

In version 14 I hope to see more functionality (presented in a clear way for the users) towards user-interacting: Easy to use notification system for 100% of interactions between users.

All notifications is so, so important – as this is the way to bring members back. “Lila has sent you a message, click here to see”, “You got a new friend request”, “Someone replied to your topic”.. This brings people back, helping to grow the community!

So: Live popups and emails + bell notifications for:
Private messages, new bbpress replies / new topics, bbpress mentions, commenting, like buttons, added, follows, friend requests, accepted friend request, rejected friend requests, rating of content, e.g posts, forum posts etc.

And the entire notification system must be easy to use for both members and the admins!
Not all admins have coding skills. We just need an easy way to implement a bell in the header, which nicely presents new notifications. Small things like that is what I’ve been looking for.

And I have often found that 50% of it is working as I hoped, but then the other 50% is just not there. Forcing me to go to Freelancer, and from the developers over there, getting told: “You don’t need such a heavy tool like buddypress to accomplish this. Let me fix it for you just using wordpress and UsersWP”.

@eluyawi

Possible caching issue.

You can check these docs, WP Fields can be used as xProfile fields https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress/